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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Think of a coach as an player? analogies, how do they work? the point is that he is so bad at his job that his mere presence makes the defense worse and there's a chance that almost any qualified replacement might be an improvement. Sorry but that is a pour analogy. Tucker is a bad DC but it's not like some league average DC is available to slide into his spot and that will result in easy to quantify improvement in production. The fact is the defense is what it is. The depth has been tested and it is non-existent. Going forward it will require a new DC, but at present, this team has suffered as much by an offense that has been much worse than it should as the bad defense. If the offensive minded head coach fires the DC while the offense has been underperforming, it will create a credibility issue. I don't think you can really scheme this defense into becoming something better, given the lack of talent on that side of the ball. I doubt a different coordinator makes any difference this year. And just look at the garbage coaches that Trestman/Emery have been bringing on board. They had a bunch of CFL nobodies and their idea of replacements were obsolete 75 year old position coaches with mediocre careers that probably should have ended a decade ago. I would put the failings on this team on Trestman and Emery over Tucker.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Your point was ignorant if it ignores the contributions of the defense. That is the point. Your point is ignorant if it ignores per game versus total.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Good enough for 10th in the league in scoring...and now the defense...32nd in league in scoring. Cant be 10th per game. That's all that matters. No, I'm pretty sure the defense matters too... Not to the front office. This team is designed to be elite office and only mediocre defense. The defense is expectedly bad while the offense is frustratingly lacking.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I see this notion all over the place and it always fails to recognize the role of manager beyond game time decision making. If horrible managers can find themselves in the postseason, why bother trying to quantify the credit a manager deserves? Perhaps the only way to truly discern the good from the bad is recognizing their ability to manage people off the field. Think of a baseball team as any other work environment. While a manager isn't going to write a report for an employee, they will have an affect on the quality of their work. Employees respond to the atmosphere of the work environment their manager provides. The healthier and more positive the environment, the better the work produced. Conversely, the more dysfunctional and negative the environment, the poorer the work. Baseball is no different. By all accounts, this is an area Maddon excels in and what separates him from the rest of the pack. Baseball is very very very very different from a [expletive] office. Just start with the fact that several players make much more than than and have much greater power over their future. It is not at all like any other work environment.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Good enough for 10th in the league in scoring...and now the defense...32nd in league in scoring. Still not acceptable offense for investments made.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    All three phases..., are terrible. Clean house. Start with emery. Three years in and this is an awful team.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Good thing this hotel has a pool and it's warm enough to be in it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    it doesn't have any bearing on the game at all, it just indicates what "smart money" may be thinking. I believe this is similar to what happened with Bears/Buf at the beginning, most people picked the Bears but the line moved toward Buffalo.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Well yeah, if he didn't have an opt-out and was under contract this would be moot. The point is if there was any contact prior to the opt-out, and all this talk of Maddon to Cubs by everybody around the league suggests there may have been, then they would have a case.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    The presence of the opt-out wouldn't matter if there were conversations prior to him opting out.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Hard to see how they'd have a case Considering the Cubs already have a manager yet everybody in baseball is guessing he will go there, it sounds like there is at the very least, plenty of smoke there.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure, but the more I think about it, you almost have to think it's slam dunk Maddon is going to the Cubs. I'd assume he would want a different challenge and not go right back to a mid-market or small-market team (save the jokes) ...................................
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I would think Maddon's agent should have a pretty good idea that teams will be interested before needing to actually reach out and be certain they are interested.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    It's the Cubs way. Hire a GM and call him president then hire an assistant GM and call him GM, then hire a manager to become president of gameday decision making and then call the former manager who is now a bench coach the manager so you can keep a bench coach.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    i really struggle to conceive of a single worse waste of time Golf? I'm down to 3-4 rounds a year.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    They are also trying to maintain the season ticket holder base and sell television rights.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    You think there is no possible way this team projects to be above .500 next year? I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, just trying to understand what you mean by that. Not that at all. I think they could easily project to be above .500, but I see no reason to offer odds to some schmoe that the Cubs will finish above .500. If you want to bet with your Cubs fan friend and you need odds on that, you are a dick. You will be able to find a million people to take the other side of that bet. The general population will not be high on the Cubs right now.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Nah, he sucks too. He doesn't seem annoyingly pompous like the other guys yet, but he's just as meatbally. Maybe moreso.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe whatever holdover OF they acquire this offseason, or whatever Jason Hammel type they acquire as well. If they go after a veteran catcher he might not be very useful in 2016.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    It's a gamble. I would have made the bet with odds (like you give $750 if the Cubs finish .500 or below, you get $1000 if they finish above). There are too many variables, too many young players who we don't know how long it will take them to adjust to bigs, injuries, the possibility of the Cubs starting off slow and Theo deciding to be sellers at the deadline one more time, etc. Nope. And that last part is definitely not happening. With Lester, I don't think he needs odds on that. I think he probably should give odds, if anything. Then again, teams never project for more than like 85 wins so what do I know. The fact that they will be relying on multiple players who "haven't done it yet" and that they have to be above .500 to win means no possible way should he be laying odds, with or without Lester. I still think they could easily be sellers if they have a rough start. These guys aren't going balls out to get to 82 wins. If Arrieta goes down and the team is scuffling, they won't hesitate to ditch a shot at .500 for a shot at a top ten pick. They will get the credibility they want with the Lester signing (reassuring season tickets holders and whoever they sign a tentative TV contract with) and will have much less to lose by losing in August and September.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    The fact that so many people came out saying the LAD are keeping Mattingly makes me assume Maddon and Friedman got sick of each other.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I believe it is a mistake to move this to cubs discussions. this is either general baseball, or transactions, like all other "will the cubs sign him" situations.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    but red zone is only useful on sunday and doesn't have anything to do with primetime games. are you watching thur/sun/mon night?
  24. jersey cubs fan
    they could use the tax write-off
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs No-Hit Streak ‏@CubsNoHitStreak · 4m4 minutes ago Could all of this just be that Joe Maddon wants Foo Fighters tickets?
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